Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courage to do something about entitlements has been scarce. Lawmakers need the political cover of a bipartisan commission. To chair such a group, Clinton should look no further than his defeated rival. Bob Dole knows the problem better than most and has in the past demonstrated the guts to address it squarely. If a solution worthy of the word is adopted, then Clinton and Dole will both have won last week, and will both deserve history's kind verdict...
...that sentiment that did the most to save the G.O.P. from what otherwise might have been a congressional loss as humiliating as Dole's trouncing by Clinton. To an extraordinary extent, both parties fought the campaigns for House seats as a referendum on national policy; former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local" has rarely been so widely flouted. Democrats pleaded with voters to repudiate the so-called revolution of O'Neill's successor twice removed, Newt Gingrich, whom they pictured as avid to gut all programs of government help to the poor and middle...
...trying to decide who was to fill the seat of retiring Senator Sam Nunn, Georgia voters were faced with a choice between a man who resembled Bob Dole and a man whose past was reminiscent of Bob Dole's. In Max Cleland they chose the latter, a Vietnam War hero who lost two legs and an arm in a grenade explosion and then rebuilt his life through public service. A spokesman for Republican loser Guy Millner complained during the campaign that Cleland, 54, was "running on biography." But a remarkable biography it is: a triple amputee who overcame depression...
...just Dole who got rejected this week, or was it some fundamental dimension of the G.O.P. message? And if it was the message, which part? Did Dole move too far to the center or not far enough? Should he have stuck to tax cutting, as Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes kept insisting, or run against abortion and vulgar pop culture, as William Bennett and the Christian right were hoping? At one time or another, Dole tried to run all those ways, so his loss cast a shadow over every label and lets every wing of the party read the returns...
...local level. Ralph Reed, head of the Christian Coalition, is promising that in the next presidential race his 1.7 million-member organization will coordinate with other religious conservatives early in the Republican primaries to name their candidate. And this time, it won't be a halfhearted culture warrior like Dole...